Cavendished Wheel

From Joe:

Attached is my effort at recreating the recent Mark Cavendish crash in our club crit last night (Ormeau park, Belfast, Northern Ireland). Actually, I didn't even get the chance at a of reckless sprint. Rather a case of some loose gravel on a tight corner and me sliding into a kerb. First lap too, ragin!

Huge Crash @ Tour of Switzerland

Big crash at the tour of Switzerland yesterday. Heinrich Haussler rides over Mark Cavendish's wheel and it folds, causing them and others to crash. Video and story.

The two minute trispoke

From Brett:

I broke this up at Trexlertown on the first Tuesday night of this past season. A whole slew of guys went down right in front of me and I couldn't go up or down the track to avoid them and went down as well. I think someone's pedal was responsible for the damage you see here. I got less than 2 minutes of use out of the wheel. :(

Here's a helmet cam documenting the crash - I was right behind the guy filming.

2 minutes is the new record. The video reminds me how much I miss riding track, but my local velodrome has been closed for a few years now.

Exploding Carbon Wheel

Aaron just sent me a link to this YouTube video. It looks like the tire pops and them the wheel disintegrates. Amazing they stayed upright as long as they did.

Zipp 404

Don sent me these photos of his Zipp 404. The was pushed into the barriers during a crit, breaking 7 bones and his Zipp 404. His steal steel frame and Alpha fork were ok.

Somehow Zipp managed to rebuild the wheel. Hopefully Don won't be off the bike for too long.

Zipp Failure at Roubaix

Backstedt broke his Zipp carbon rims at Paris Roubaix, the problem according to Zipp engineer Josh Poertner was that he was running 24mm tires instead of 27mm tires. Full Interview.

Zipp 303

About his Zipp 303 Alex says:

Broke during a ride this morning. Cracked across the rim and looks like the top layer of carbon is peeling away... going to have to send them back to Zipp.

Hopefully Zipp helps him out.

Oh My!

I have no idea what happened to this bike. It looks like ever carbon piece is broken.

Busted Wheel

Here is an extreme close up of a carbon rim. Its days are over.